Preface to Issue 7
Dear Torchlighters,
While it is true that most bookworms develop their reading habits in the golden summer of childhood, it is only during adolescence that they start coming into their own as readers. This is the time when read-alouds and dadi-nani stories give way to independent reading; when choice is exercised and genre preferences are formed; when the seeds of lifelong interests and obsessions are sown.
And thus, this issue.
In Spotlight, we present the stories of three people who traverse through the topography of their lives to reflect upon the bond between adolescence and books; sometimes this involves delving deep into their own pasts, other times it entails a reaching out to others. Editor and YA aficionado Bijal Vachharajani puts on her hiking boots In Search of the Great Indi...